Meaning of Victual | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Food fit for human (or occasionally animal) consumption.
   archaic
2. Food supplies; provisions.
   archaic, in-plural
3. Edible plants.
   obsolete, specifically
4. Grain of any kind.
   Scotland, obsolete, specifically

Equivalents

Examples

“Shift bore (for il aire) as best ye do thinke, / and twise a day giue him fresh vittle and drinke: […]”

“[T]hough the Cameleon Loue can feed on the ayre, I am one that am nouriſh'd by my victuals; and would faine have meate: [...]”

“[T]he Making of Things Inalimentall, to become Alimentall, may be an Experiment of great Profit, for Making new Victuall.”

“For as the Teeth in Beasts of Prey / Are Swords, with which they fight in Fray. / So Swords in Men of War, are Teeth, / Which they do eat their Vittle with.”

“Friday told me, ſuch a Boat would do very well, and would carry much enough Vittle, Drink, Bread, that was his Way of Talking.”

“I must confess your wine and vittle / I was too hard upon a little: / Your table neat, your linen fine; / And though in miniature, you shine: […]”

“He [Samuel Keimer] was usually a great glutton, and I promised myself some diversion in half starving him. He agreed to try the practice, if I would keep him company. I did so, and we held it for three months. We had our victuals dress'd, and brought to us regularly by a woman in the neighborhood, who had from me a list of forty dishes, to be prepar'd for us at different times, in all which there was neither fish, flesh, nor fowl, and the whim suited me the better at this time from the cheapness of it, not costing us above eighteen pence sterling each per week.”

“Robin promis'd me / A' my winter vittle; / Fient haet he had but three / Goos feathers and whittle.”

“Man is not what one calls a happy animal; his appetite for sweet victual is so enormous.”

“[D]inner was announced by Bailey junior in these terms: "The wittles is up!"”

“And down a rocky pathway from the place / There came a fair-hair'd youth, that in his hand / Bare victual for the mowers: […]”

“[H]is motto was, "Meat first, and spoon vittles to top off on."”

“'Terence, this is stupid stuff: / You eat your victuals fast enough; / There can't be much amiss, 't is clear, / To see the rate you drink your beer.[']”

“It is good to make prouiſion, for peraduenture wee ſhall lacke victuals and wee lie in campe on Blacke Heath long.”

“The citie was thus taken, many of the Turks fled into the caſtell, the reſt were put vnto the ſword, man, woman, and child; and amongſt them alſo many of the Chriſtians, the furious ſouldiers taking of them no knowledge. Great wealth was there found, but ſmall ſtore of victuals.”

“[C]onſider, what Victuall or Eſculent Things there are, which grow ſpeedily, and within the yeere, As Parſnips, Carrets, Turnips, Onions, Radiſh, Artichokes of Hieruſalem, Maiz, and the like. […] The Victuall in Plantations, ought to be expanded, almoſt as in a Beſieged Towne; That is, with certaine Allowance.”

“But if the beast and branks be spar'd / Till kye be gaun without the herd, / An' a' the vittel in the yard, / An' theckit right, / I mean your ingle-side to guard / Ae winter night.”

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